When you ask people overly simplistic and broad “gotcha” questions in a provocative and accusatory manner, you shouldn’t be surprised to receive glib uninformative answers. If you develop genuine professional relationships with Program Officers and Scientific Review Officers within NIH and treat them like the fellow scientists they are, you will receive thoughtful honest answers.

Deglaze with a generous splash of corenwijn, reduce completely, and continue to sautee until onions are nicely caramelized.

Add whole can of tomatoes and start simmering on medium low.

Simmer until the tomatoes are nicely broken down and reduced (adding salt to taste), and then add the basil, stir in and continue to cook for about two or three minutes. While the sauce is finishing, cook the pasta in about one gallon of boiling water with one tablespoon of salt.

When the pasta is al dente, drain and add to the pan with the sauce, stir it up, turn off the heat, and then throw in the diced buffalo mozzarella, and stir it up well.

Just to be clear, this is really what the teabagger shrieking for federal budget cuts is all about:

Steve Spradlin (Coinguy1945) wrote:

I want cuts deep enough to make the illegals, blacks and other undesirables leave America when their welfare and food stamps are cut off. Wht was there no end of FEDERAL unions like in Wisconsin? I am ashamed that Boener betrayed us and the lives of innocent babys. He will pay heavily.

Well, for some reason it took a while for the incoherent whiners to find Sally Rockey’s blog post in which she published OER’s response to the Benezra petition. But they have! Oh, they have!

As at least some of the commenters there have recognized, the number of grants that can be funded each fiscal year is zero-sum (leaving aside for this purpose the issue of grant size). Thus, the *only* possible thing that can be coherently argued as a problem with the A2 sunset is that without A2s, there are some grants being funded that shouldn’t be if there were A2s, and some grants not being funded that should be.

So I ask this of those who are arguing strenuously for return of A2s: what is the nature of these grants that are being funded that shouldn’t be, and those grants that aren’t being funded that should be?

And to amplify: You *can’t* only tell us about grants that should have been funded that weren’t. You *must* also tell us about grants that were funded but shouldn’t have been. Asserting the former without the latter is completely logically incoherent, and not worthy of anyone who considers herself to be a scientist.